Filing-cabinet.



--VUNITED STATES WILLIAM A.. GIBONEY, OF BEATTIE, KANSAS.

Specication of Letters Patent.

FILING-Q ABIMET.

Patented July 2, 1907.

Application tiled October 25,1906- Serial No. 340,731.

To all whom fit may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. GIBONEY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Beattie, in the county of Marshall and State of Kansas, have invented a new and Improved Filing-Cabinet, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to certain improvements in filing cabinets particularly designed for the ling'of sheet music, newspapers, pamphlets, books, magazines, documents and the like, and the object of the invention is to provide means whereby any desired sheet or folder may be instantly identified and removed from the cabinet.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reierence indicate corresponding parts in all the figures, in which Figure lis a front elevation of my improved cabinet, the door thereof being opened; Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the line 2-2 of Fig. l; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the indexing means and Fig. 4 is a detail showing the means for supporting the indexing cards.

My improved cabinet .comprises a rectangular case having a flat top l, vertical rear and side walls 2, and a hinged cover 3. The lower end is closed by a suitable bottom 4 resting upon any suitable form of supporting standard 5. The portions of the cabinet above referred to are of any suitable construction and of any material desired, the structure of the cabinet walls forming no portion of my invention. The interior of the cabinet is sub-divided into a plurality of compartments for receiving the articles for which the cabinet is designed. In the speciiic form shown, a partition 6 sub-divides the cabinet into upper and lower chambers, and the space below the partition is sub-divided by a vertical partition '7 into two smaller compartments. One oi these compartments is provided with a plurality of shelves 8 adapted to receive books or other similar articles, while the other smaller compartment is sub-divided by a plurality of vertical partitions 9 into compartments adapted to receive sheets oi music, newspapers, pamphlets, or the like.

he space above the main horizontal partition 6 contains the index board 10 and the cords extending therefrom. This index board is preferably hinged adjacent the front side of the compartment substantially parallel to the door, so as to leave a large chamber or compartment in the rear of the board, which compartment may be employed for storing purposes. The index board 10 is provided with a plurality of small spring clips 1l adapted to press the opposite ends of a card against the board, while directly below each card is providedv a hook 12 from which is suspended a cord 13 leading to the particular piece of sheet music or the like, lindicated upon the card. Each piece of sheet music is provided with a strip of very heavy paper or cloth 14 passed along the folded edge of the music, and to this strip is firmly secured the end of the cord 13. The names of all of the different pieces of music are written upon the separate cards fastened to the index board, and the cords secured to the separate sheets of music are suspended from the hook directly below the respective cards. It will thus be noted that whenever a person desires to extract a particular piece of music, he does not need to look through a large pile until the right one is found, but he merely has to glance at the index board until he finds the name oi the music desired, and then by unfastening the cord from the hook 12 and pulling upon the cord,

vthe particular piece of music is readily withdrawn "from the cabinet. Upon returning the music it is not positively essential that it be put back in the same place from which it was withdrawn, as it may be inserted at other places in the cabinet, it only being essential that the cord be again suspended from beneath the card bearing the name of the particular music.

It is very evident that the cabinet may be employed for filing newspapers, pamphlets, books, pads, documents and the like, the bound edges of which are not wide enough to permit the printing of the name there on. If desired, covers or envelops may be provided for containing a plurality of papers, and each of these papers, if they relate to a separate subject-matter', may be indicated on a single card. These receivers may each constitute merely a folded piece of paper as indicated in Fig. 3, and having a strip of cloth or heavier material secured thereto along the folded edge. The strip 14. may either be pasted to the rellceiver or to the cover of the pamphlet, newspaper, or sheet oi music, or may be sewed or riveted thereto.

For temporary filing, ordinary paper fasteners may be employed for securing the strip to the papers to be filed.

Various changes may be made in the construction of the device without departing from the spirit of my invent-ion. It is only essential that each article, package, or pamphlet to be filed shall be connected by a cord or other suitable means to an index board. For instance, in case there are a large number of cards to be secured to the index board, these cards may be made very small and contain only a single number, which number corresponds to the name of the music or other folio. spending numbers would preferably be indexed in a small book. In this manner I may avoid the use of a very large index board even though there are a very large number of separate articles or documents to be indexed. If desired, one of the side walls above the partition may be provided with a door, whereby en trance may be gained behind the index board without interfering with any of the cards or Without opening the main door 3. i

In this case the names and their corre` l. ln a device of the class described, a filing cabinet having compartments to receive a plurality of article s, means Y for securing a cord to each of said articles, means in one of the compartments .for indicating the names of the articles, and means adjacent each of said indicating means for receiving the ends of the cord.

2. In combination, a tiling cabinet having a plurality of compartments, an index board located in one of said coinpartrnents, a plurality of means each adapted to be secured to a separate article, and cords leading from each of said means to the index board.

3. A device of the class described, comprising a filing cabinet, an index board located therein, a plurality of indicating cards secured to said index board, a plurality of means adapted to be secured to separate articles placed in said cabinet,.and cords connecting each of said meansl to the index board adjacent the cards thereon.

4. In a device of the class described, a filing cabinet having an index board, cards removably secured to said board, means adjacent each of said cards for securing cords to said board, and means secured to the opposite end of each of said cords and adapted to be attached to ticles Within the cabinet.

5. In a device of the class described, a ling cabinet, an index board, a plurality of spring clips carried thereby, a plurality of cards held by said clips, a plurality of hooks secured to said index board, there being one hook adjacent each card, cords attached to said hooks, and means carried by said cords and adapted to be secured to the articles tiled in the cabinet. v

G. In combination, a filing cabinet having a plurality of partitions forming separate compartments therein, an index board adjacent the upper end of the cabinet, a plurality of cards carried on said board, and means adjacent each of said cards by whicha cord may be secured to said separate arl board, each of said cords leading. to the article indicated I by the corresponding card.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this speciication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM A. GIBONEY.

Witnesses FRANK BnLL, WILLIAM Wunstruiz. 

